On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Thomas Finneid <tfinneid@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > As I understand it, data is stored in pages and those pages have to be > retrieved in order to write or read data from them. So my assumption is that > a page used to write data would not be replaced until memory is low and > different pages needs to be retrieved. Is this approximately correct? > Yes. That's how it works. Thanks, Pavan -- Pavan Deolasee EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
